I feel i'm in the minority around here. I just turned 24, been dressing since i was 12. Where are all the young under 30 dressers?
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I feel i'm in the minority around here. I just turned 24, been dressing since i was 12. Where are all the young under 30 dressers?
I'm not quite under 30, but close.
I'm a 24 y/o Transsexual girl.
27yo here
There are plenty of young 'uns around.
But many of them have more of a real life out there in the world than us ol' bed-ridden crones. So they're out living their lives while we're here tethered to our out of date computer thingies. Even known some to post to here from their Blackberries! Wowzer! Aint this new fangled technology stuff great?
Seriously, Kylie hun, you'll find 'em. And they'll find you if you keep posting.
Meanwhile, just think of us as a bunch of your old weird aunties (you know, the ones that your parents think are scandalous hussies...). We gotta lot to tell ya, if ya ask the right questions and are polite! (Might even put a five dollar bill in your Xmas card!)
respect & love,
deja
:D...:<3:...:D
22 here.
22 here
I'm 22
Ive also wondered where some of the young CDers are and if any are near me. Unfortunaly the chance of finding your next door neighbor is unlikly, We (yongsters) are around for a few more years until more gray hairs and wrinkles start poping through :D
25 y/o here!
I think that there are MORE of us, statistically, who are older because there seems to be a direct correlation between CD numbers and the degree of sexual dimorphisim in society.
There was MORE dimorphisim in the 40s, 50's and even 60's than today.Back then, the makeup was more intense, the clothing more strictly sex-specific. CDing then, had an extra "charge" to it and could often be more effective. So those of us who have been CDing from those eras, are likely more numerous.
The traveled author,James Mitcthner, noted and described this effect of local sexual dimorphisim on the number of CDs in different cultures described in his writings.
Whoopey!
At 29 I just fit into the "young" catagory as defined by you!!
Also I've been dressing since about the age of 12, pretty closeted, My wife knows and enjoys my feminine side, having said that though, I'm off to a Disco in an LBD this week! so excited! :D
Yay for the younguns!
Sophie
Hey! Yay for the young 'uns, indeed!
I'm very happy when younger CDs find us.
New attitudes in society and new opportunities for all of us are gonna be the result of these fine young things getting into their second lives (or maybe heading for their true lives!) and accepting themselves earlier and with less guilt than most of us older ...ahem...I mean more mature persons.
Don't be dissin' the wrinkles and gray hair now, Rylie hun, you'll be there soon enough :D 'Sides those aren't wrinkles...those are "experiential artifacts"!
(But good ol' Miss Olay and Miss Garnier are helping with that, thank the goddess!)
Oopps! I meant Yay for the "Young' uns"!
Bloomin' teacher types picking me up on my slepping!
Sophie
18 TS here. Young enough? :)
explain and/or translate for us lay people. It sounds interesting, but I am not sure I know what you are talking about.
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Originally Posted by Marina Twelve
27 here
Now I feel old...!
I'm 25
How's that Kylie, hun? There's 11 that said "hi!" in this thread so far (that's 1/2 the posts) and we've yet to hear from the chatty 6 that are in my friends list or the other scores that post here regularly...
Anyway, chica, age is just a number and, the goddess knows, there're plenty here like me that haven't yet decided what they wanna be when they grow up!
:D
26 years old here.
23 myself!
That is very interesting! Kewl theory. But I have noticed that on the net and even out say at clubs & bars where CDs hang out forty and over girls always vastly outnumber young CDs. Even at super trendy places. I often wonder about that too!Quote:
Originally Posted by Marina Twelve
I have heard another theory from Phoebe Cross the lady that used to run the makeover service for CDs here in Atlanta. She thought that guys hit about forty years of age their Testosterone drops and since they already have fem characterships just under the surface it all comes bubbling up! I started in my forties and she told me she saw lots of others like me too.
Anyway sorry this middle aged chick jumped on you young girls thread!
24 year old crossdresser here.
I'm 24, and here. - ok ill admit it im not the most active member.
Since the world is more alternative these days, at least in some countries, TG ppl are coming out and coming out earlier than ever.
With the advent and huge expansion of the internet, confused kids are growing up with an idea of what they could be. They are educating themselves at earlier age, and meeting like-minded ppl that can help them on their journey to their trueselves.
A best friend TS of mine who was my gf at one point in time, and my first TS girlfriend, and first TS I actually got to know was confused and at 13 thought she was gay or bi. She started researching on the internet about TG and learned she was without a doubt TS at age 15 and at that time ran away to her gf's house in another state where the girl's parents let her dress.
I also wondered if I was bi, because the mainstream mass media had portrayed TG persons as freaks that "no one wants to be" so that turned me off at an early age of thinking that was a possibility for me. Now I'm a full blown MTF TS with a sexual orientation including all genders.
So with the internet, less discrimination, and more freedom, we are coming out sooner and learning about who we are sooner.
I'm 29, but I tend to act like I am somewhere between 9 and 90, do I count as young?
28 is that still young
18 Here :p
Marina Twelve, I totally understand what you meant about dimophism...The difference between the roles and presentation of the genders in the olden daze.....
But on the otherhand I disagree with the logic that there are more older ones that are out.
I think alot of the older ones are in the closet still because of the social impression made on them earlier in those decades you mentioned... I might be wrong...Maybe they're just there......Maybe the older ones are just existing.
But these younger ones like 30 and younger, as young as anyone old enough to go on the internet and get a little freedom and identity are surely coming out sooner and learning about their identity and their true selves earlier in life.
I see a whole lot of teen and young adult under 25 TG's in my experience in real life. The suburban kids found it thru the internet mostly and understood what they were and felt more comfortable with themselves and came out....
And the innercity urban ones (Yes alot of my TG friends are black, at least half of them)...Well they learned in a sadder situation....They looked up to the TS and CD hookers that were well known in their urban neighborhoods that walked Nebraska Ave. everynight. When they got of age to start talking to them they kind of graduated into their shoes and many black TG girls I know transitioned right after highschool when they were 18 and old enough to walk with the older girls in 'tha hood. The older ones taught them how to make gaffs, how to apply makeup, how to properly take hormones, and got their own hormones by their connection from the older established transgirl's.
I have been around for 27 years
22, ts. loads of us are 22, that's so the best age.... (lies!)
hey there, im a 24 year young one :D
I also need to add one of the most important points I have that might show a reason why old ones in public seem to outnumber young ones.
We pass so well! I was telling my mom that everyday in public she's around transpeople she just doesn't know because many are so dedicated, and others so young that they pass so well and few people can clock their T.
I still get clocked sometimes, but I pass for the most part, even as a woman who is bigger than most GG's are.
Take my word for it, the young under 30 crowd passes REALLY well for the most part. I am large framed and tall but I pass because my face and head is soft and feminine, and my body is curvy, and plus I am on hormones.
I found that alot of my under 33 friends who are in decent shape and use proper femme mannerisms and voice pass just like a genetic girl their age.
That is why we are hard to detect.
Even I have trouble clocking people's T in public, but I know what to look for. I think the young ones just tend to blend in more.
I'm not saying anything bad about old CD's and TS's and TG's in general at all. I'm just trying to say that age takes it's toll.
But makeup is an amazing thing, if properly used the illusions are amazing.
I know plenty of DQ's who are their gay male self most the time and have real short or bald hair and then they put on their Drag Get Up and they look like really fabulous, festive, glamorous divas.
I just turned 22 two months ago.
27 here
Wow, and while I was waiting for my account to be activated, I was wondering if I was going to be the younger one or not!
haha, I'm 21, been dressing since I was maybe 11~12
27. I've been hiding in Texas.
I'm 27 even tho it says 28 on my profile (for some reason when I joined I didn't want to give my real birthday)
26 here.
22 here. In north-east IL.
23 here :straightface: not the most active though, most of the time just lurking.
27year old TG here :D
I'm 29, so I guess I just fit into this category!
Crystal
I be 21 and a half years old.
Sexual Dimorphisim is the degree of "difference" in dress, physicality and behaviour between the sexes in a society (di-morphisim=two forms)Quote:
Originally Posted by Michelia
The theory is that the greater the degree of dimorphisim (how drastically the two forms differ), the more tendancy there is for CDing in said society.
In past times there was more dimorphisim between the sexes than recent times---thus a greater percent of the older population CDs than the younger population.
I'm 28 years old...I'm more comfortable now than ever with my fem side...I have a great supportive SO. ANy others my age in South Florida area?
18, freshman in college.
Not from south florida area...but I'm in Tampa for what it's worth.
Very supportive SO. I've probably dressed more with her than ever with anything else.
28 Here, although I fit in more with the younger 20's crowd seeing how I'm still in Undergrad!!! Anyone from the South??
23 CDer here.
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the 18-25 yr old CDer section on here. Takes a bit to find on the front page, but it's there, trust me ;)